The Kaiser's Favorite Poems

What are the Kaiser's favorite poems?             Well, now, you tax me hard:         I know the Kaiser's favorite drink             But do not know his bard;         I'm sure it is not Schiller             Who reigns in German homes.         Nor yet Olympian Goethe,             Who writes the Kaiser's poems.         Perhaps that Heinrich Heine             Has touched the Kaiser's soul;         Or Arndt with his trumpet call             Like a new conscription roll;         Or, Walther von der Vogelweide             With his nest in mythic domes,         Is the author and creator             Of the Kaiser's favorite poems.         If I saw the Kaiser's library             I'd know well what he reads -         The color of his fancy             And the prompter of his deeds:         I'd learn the depth and wisdom             Of his theories and his gnomes,         If I got but just a glance or two             At the Kaiser's favorite poems.         Then let us go to Essen,             Where the Kaiser's books are bound;         They are full of "steel" engravings -             All "best sellers" there are found;         For the Prussian soul and spirit             Speaks in rhythm thro' those tomes,         And these without a question,             Are the Kaiser's favorite poems.         For Rt. Hon. David Lloyd-George.